° 1911 J Phillips, Migration of Anatidce in Massachusetts. 



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At present it is likely that future records of this sort will not be 

 kept, so that it seems worth while, in view of the paucity of similar 

 data, to give a complete list of all the species taken during this 

 period, with brief notes about each; such estimates are of interest 

 at least for purposes of future comparison. 



I shall also give the percentage of each species as it figures in the 

 totals for the ten years, and in the cases of the more uncommon 

 varieties, the actual dates and numbers. 



Before beginning, it may be well to sum up the actual result of 

 each year in numbers, and also to give the yearly number of fowl 

 seen from the stand, an actual record of which has been faithfully 

 kept. In the table, "total fowl" means all fowl seen from the 

 stand during the season in question. "Fowl flying" refers to 

 those birds passing over which did not light, while "fowl in pond" 

 are the birds which alighted. 



The chief points to be noted in the above table is the extraor- 

 dinary diminution of "total fowl" observed in comparing the last 



